{"product_id":"sweetness-and-power-isbn-9780140092332","title":"Sweetness and Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a \"slave\" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat.\" -\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003eSweetness and Power - Sidney W. Mintz       Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar\u003cbr\u003e2. Production\u003cbr\u003e3. Consumption\u003cbr\u003e4. Power\u003cbr\u003e5. Eating and Being\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat.\" -\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine book. It not only tells a fascinating story, it is also something of an antidote to the static quality of much anthropological writing.\" -Jack Goody, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSidney W. Mintz \u003c\/b\u003ewas a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught anthropology. His academic specialization focused on the anthropology of food, with a particular focus on the consumption and commodification of sugar. His works include \u003ci\u003eTasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe World of Soy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2015.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302553473253,"sku":"NP9780140092332","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140092332.jpg?v=1767737677","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sweetness-and-power-isbn-9780140092332","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}